Men's Basketball - Archives 2017-18

BATON ROUGE – A previously announced tournament trip to Maui and the start of home-and-home sets with Houston and Memphis highlight a 12-game non-conference schedule that will start the first year of LSU Basketball under Coach Will Wade.

BATON ROUGE – Officials of the Maui Jim Maui Invitational announced on Tuesday that the LSU Tigers will face Michigan in their 2017 tournament opening game on Monday, Nov. 20, at the Lahaina Civic Center on the island of Maui in Hawaii.

BATON ROUGE – LSU Basketball Coach Will Wade announced on Wednesday that three-year letterman Jalyn Patterson would redshirt for the 2017-18 season and will explore his options for his future playing eligibility.

BATON ROUGE – LSU senior forward Duop Reath has been named to the 12-man team for the Australia Emerging Boomers that will take part in August in the 29th World University Games in Taipei.
Both the men's and women's teams consist of players 23 and under who are currently completing university studies in Australia or abroad.
The event is held in Taipei from Aug. 20-29.
The Boomers roster has five players who are competing in Australia and seven total players including Reath, who are presently playing at American universities: Emmett Naar (St. Mary's), Dejan Vasiljevic (Miami), Tanner Krebs (St. Mary's), Jack McVeigh (Nebraska), Xavier Cooks (Winthrop) and Gorjok Gak (Florida State).
Australia is in Group D for the pool stage where they will take on Ukraine, Lithuania, Israel, Russia and Mozambique.
Reath, in his first year with LSU last season, averaged 12.0 points per game and 6.2 rebounds a game while shooting 51.0 percent from the field (157-308). He started 30-of-31 games and averaged 27.7 minutes per game.

BATON ROUGE – LSU men's basketball coach Will Wade joined the other Southeastern Conference basketball coaches in the annual summer teleconference conducted on Monday by the league. Here are some of Coach Wade's comments to the media on the call:

BATON ROUGE – Former LSU star and veteran NBA player Garrett Temple of Baton Rouge has recently been elected to a three-year term as Vice President of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA).

BATON ROUGE – LSU men's basketball Coach Will Wade and LSU Athletics announced on Monday that point guard Tremont Waters has signed Southeastern Conference and institutional paperwork to join the LSU basketball program for the 2017-18 season.

LSU Sports Insider sits down with new LSU Head Men's Basketball Coach Will Wade. In this in-depth podcast, coach Wade discusses his background, career, the state of the program, and his vision for the future of LSU Tigers hoops. Hosted by the Voice of the Tigers, Chris Blair.

BATON ROUGE – LSU men's basketball head coach Will Wade made it official on Tuesday that Bill Armstrong, who has been a part of the Ole Miss men's basketball staff for the past 11 seasons, will be joining the LSU coaching staff for the 2017-18 season.